What is your greatest strength as a writer?

Can I have two? ;-) If you read some of the comments about this book:

http://www.authonomy.com/books/22139/a-wizard-s-da...

what you'll find people praising most often is the dialogue (or crisp, tight writing overall) and the magic system - maybe world-building in general. I'd like to think the plot is pretty good too. That's three things...

If I had to pick one, it would probably be persistence - the willingness to stick with something until I've got it right. That doesn't necessarily mean sticking with any particular book, as I've abandoned more than one when I didn't think I could make it work. I mean sticking with writing, learning from my mistakes and gradually getting better (sometimes very gradually!)

My Greatest Strength

Oh goodness... I would say my flaw is apart of my strength.

As I've said before, I tend to get wordy and it can overwhelm my sentences but on the contrary, words are also my strength.

I have a complex vocabulary for most kids my age. Half the time my friends have no idea what I'm talking about. I love large words and can pick up a meaning rather quickly with context clues. My forte is describing. I can build precise pictures for my readers and although I don't take lightly to flaunting my strengths, I find I'm pretty darn good with my descriptions. Yes, I may get a tad wordy at times but with a little tweak here and there, it's a very elaborate scene. I love painting pictures with words and creating a place that may not exist on Earth. People often become annoyed with long descriptions but I feed from them. In my personal work, I try to limit myself to prevent that drag-on description. All in all, words are my strength and weakness.

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This is what you get for making the dictionary a secondary bible.

I think my greatest strength as a writer is my ability to come up with ideas. I'm always coming up with new plots, characters; thankfully, I'm inspired by the smallest details. However, there's a bad side to this -- I have the hardest time getting the ideas on the paper. Sitting down to do the actual writing is what I struggle with, not figuring out what to write about. Good question by the way.

Dialogue would have to be a strength of mine. I can get so into it that I won't realize fully what I'm writing. Some of the things my characters say surprise me and even catch me off guard.

I'm also good at making up ideas. I have never been out of ideas before. There is always some idea/plot brewing in my mind. (You know, daydreaming xp )

I also love writing description. I think that when my head is in the right place, it comes out pretty well

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I think my flaws far outweigh my strengths :P but here is one of my biggest strengths: descriptive writing. I absolutely love it and it's so easy for me. It just flows out and seems to fit together perfectly. I took a descriptive writing course in high school that was all essays and stories, which I loved. So I have a lot of experience behind learning how to do it properly and also not to over describe. Too bad it also ties in with my weakness, which is not enough descriptive writing with my dialogue :(

Hmm. I had to think about this a lot. Like you, I struggle to pick out good things about myself and my writing. When I tried to think about my strengths, I found myself just picking out bad points. My mind has gone completely blank, I don't think myself necessarily very good nor very bad at certain aspects of writing. I would say I'm good at setting the scene but I'm terrible at description. I do like creating my characters though; each character I create is unique and I sometimes find myself favouring some over others, as if I knew them in person.

Okay... So my strengths.... It took me a while to think about it, and to finally come up with an answer....

I my my strength would have to be the plot... I think I hae fairly original, interesting plots - that I would enjoy, anyway. I fairly good at the whole brainstorming thing and I work out heaps of tiny details in the plot which no one but me would know.. sometimes it's not even used in the story, but it's there.

Now I'm off to answer your other question.

Both great questions, might I add

My greatest writing strength would have to be my ability to write catchy beginnings, something that will keep the writers attention. I really like writing scenes where people are having dreams, because it gives me the chance to write abstractly, and add things that will make the reader wanting to know what is going on. It's a lot of fun to write and it makes me proud of my work, and it is rare that I am actually proud of something I write.

What Are Your Biggest Strengths